The University of Arizona Press
Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Time: 6-7 p.m., CST
Where: Av. Miguel Ángel de Quevedo 485c, Romero de Terreros, Coyoacán, Ciudad de México
Octavio Quintanilla will talk about his recent collection, Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours, winner of the 2024 Ambroggio Prize, at the Marabunta Librería y Cafetería. This book launch event is sponsored by literary collective, Chicanxs Sin Fronteras, as part of “Encuentro de Cultura Chicana.” Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours will be introduced by Mexican poet Javier Tinajero. Quintanilla served as the 2018–2020 Poet Laureate of San Antonio, Texas. He teaches literature and creative writing in the MA/MFA program at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas.
About the book:
In Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours, Octavio Quintanilla takes us on a profound journey to witness what it means to erase those boundaries devised by genre and politics intent on stifling memory, imagination, and creativity.
Presented in Spanish with English translations, this poetry collection comprises lyric and concrete poems—or frontextos—that explore intimacy and different shades of violence as a means to reconcile the speaker’s sense of belonging in the world.
